Mod Fun - two albums on one CD (Detour)

"Wardour Dreams" is a compilation  of both of MOD FUN's 80's Vinyl LPs, remastered and for the first time available as full albums on CD.

This collection of songs represents the bulk of studio recordings by "New Jersey's Original 80's Retro-mod band," who were among the most popular of the handful of east-cost acts in the early 80's retro-rock movement based in the "NYC cave-stomp" scene; which would eventually come to be known as the "underground garage" sound. Based around the club "The Dive," where MOD FUN gigged monthly, alongside many other gigs at CBGB, SNAFU, Firefly, DIRT and the Peppermint Lounge.  

MOD FUN also ventured out to California very early in their career (1984) and absorbed the stylistic influences of the brand new "Paisley Underground" sound within their tight "UK psyche" compositions.  Many gigs at San Francisco's The Mab and Berkeley Square; LA's Madame Wongs and Cavern Club, as well as San Diego's Club Zu and Rock Palace.

"90 Wardour Street" (released in 1985) was their debut 12-inch and exhibits MOD FUN's flair for American Garage sounds slammed right up against their infatuation with UK Psyche-Mod-R&B material like The Creation, Syd's Pink Floyd, The Eyes, The Action, Zombies, Kinks and (even) Early Who.  You can't listen to these 8 original songs and not get hooked by the depth of the many classic influences in their sound ... 90 Wardour Street plays like a "case history" of 60's retro music...

For "Dorothy's Dream" the band dipped even further into the Californian "Paisley Underground," (after their 2 tours of that state,) and their immersion in the "American Indie" sound, including more influences like Big Star and The Nazz now sitting alongside their continued Anglophilic love of UK psyche and pop like The Move, Syd Barrett, Buzzcocks and their original initial inspiration The Jam.  By the time "...Dream" was recorded however it was even harder to pick out individual influences, as the band had jammed so many different retrofied pieces into their musical puzzle.

Also included in this CD collection are 5 "bonus" tracks — 3 songs originally intended to be on the "Dorothy's Dream" album, which ultimately weren't recorded and released on the vinyl LP in 1985.  Two of these tracks appear as demo recordings ("Plastic People" and "Sugarcube Boy,") and one as a live version ("Understand Me," recorded in California 10th, April 1985.)  Two more songs from that same gig appear here as well: "Movin' N Groovin'" from their debut "Wardour St.," and a live version of the B-side of their debut single "Happy Feeling"

Detour is proud to present these full length albums from NYC's most popular "mod" act who've (until now) only appeared here in the UK on a number of compilations throughout the years — most notably Anthony Meynell/Squire's "American Heart and Soul" and their tribute album on HiLo, "It's A Mod Mod World" on Antenna and (one of only 3 US acts!) on the Cherry Red boxset "Millions Like Us." 

FEATURES

I Can See Everything

Tyme Is Now

Movin N Groovin

Fade to Mirror

We Got Tyme

The American Dream

Eyes Getting Louder

A Minute Twenty

I Fell

Turn It Around

Hope It's Today

Think Of Things To Say

I Want You To Know

Mary Goes Round

Open Your Eyes

Half Way To The End

Thee Hair That You Wear

I've Got Your Number

Plastic People (Demo)

Sugar Cube Boy (Demo)

Movin And Groovin (Live At Berkley Square)

Understand Me (Live At Berkley Square)

Happy Feeling (Live At Berkley Square)

From The Jam & The Selecter announce UK Tour starting in October

From The Jam will be celebrating the 5th studio LP by The Jam, 'Sound Affects', in concert this autumn with very special guests The Selecter.

Chez 66 Dates for 2021

 

Stone Foundation to release CD of all the b-sides, remixes and bonus tracks from "Is Love Enough?" on 11th June

 

Released 11th June 2021

CD of all the b-sides, remixes and bonus tracks from "Is Love Enough?" which have not yet been commercially released on the CD format. Presented in a card wallet, designed so it can be stored folded into the deluxe CD edition of "Is Love Enough?".

Released to coincide with the Record Store Day release of the remixes on 12" vinyl. Exclusive to the Stone Foundation webstore. 

Tracklist: -

1) Deeper Love (feat. Paul Weller) [OPOLOPO Remix]

2) The Light in Us (feat. Laville) [Boogie Back Soul Weekender Remix]

3) Deeper Love (feat. Paul Weller) [Boogie Back Late Night Jazz Funk Remix]

4) Changes (Radio Session)

5) Deeper Love (Radio Session)

6) Help Me (Radio Session)

7) Hold On To Love (Radio Session)

8) Deeper Love (feat. Paul Weller) [7" Mix]

9) Love's Getting Deeper [Good Vibes Mix]

Virgin Radio Album Special: Paul Weller - Fat Pop (Volume 1) - Show Now Available

 

Paul Weller chats to Eddy Temple-Morris about his sixteenth solo studio album, Fat Pop. 

There aren’t many musicians who genuinely deserve the moniker ‘Legend’, Paul Weller is one of them.

In a career spanning five decades, he’s fronted one of the greatest British new wave bands of all time, The Jam, as the main man behind the Style Council he combined his love of alternative rock and soul to create some perfect pop music, and as a solo artist with his continuation to evolve and experimented with his music. The glue that has always held his music together has been his love of soul music which has influenced his writing and recording throughout his career.

Paul released his 15th solo album ‘On Sunset’  less than a year ago which was recorded just prior to the pandemic, with no live music and therefore no touring he spent the lockdown getting on with album number 16,’ Fat Pop volume one’ which came out last week.

Eddy Temple-Morris talked to Paul about writing and recording the record which includes a duet with his daughter Leah, and numerous collaborations with other musicians including Andy Fairweather Low and Steve Cradock from Ocean Colour Scene.

https://virginradio.co.uk/specials/virgin-radio-album-special-paul-weller-fat-pop-volume-1-210523561918

Royal Mint honours The Who with new music legends coin collection

 

https://www.nme.com/news/music/royal-mint-honours-the-who-with-new-music-legends-coin-collection-2947088

Paul Weller's 10 greatest songs with and without The Jam according to Far Out Magazine

 

“No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?” — Paul Weller

The above quote tells you all you need to know about Paul Weller. Raised in the typically British town of Woking, Weller became fascinated with music and its transformative power from an early age, indulging his intrigue in a cornucopia of different sounds before eventually excelling as one of the punk scene’s most potent members. “When I told my mum I was going to play my first gig when I was 14, she couldn’t believe it,” Weller once said, “Cause I was painfully shy at that time. But I just done it, put my head down and got through it. And I suppose there’s still a little bit of that, even though it’s many years later and I’ve been doing it for a long time.”

Weller’s is a career that most musicians would kill for. Not only did he create one of Britain’s favourite bands in The Jam, a group packed full of gut-punch power-pop brilliance as well as tunes that still shine today, but he also successfully started a new group in The Style Council and achieved a stunning solo career, all while pushing forward creatively at every opportunity.

That last bit may sound like a given. After all, shouldn’t that be what all musicians are trying to do? Evolve? However, the truth is, look through most of rock’s legacy acts and you’ll find a hefty dose of repetition. Stars may speak of their desire to push the envelope and not re-tread on the paths they had already worn down, but the reality is that so many find themselves stranded on the same islands they had anchored on years prior. Not so for Weller.

Look through his albums, and you will find a consistent pattern of Weller pushing his artistic integrity to the very edge whenever he can. It has given him not only the due respect he deserves but also some killer tunes. Below, we’ve picked out ten of our favourites from Paul Weller’s long career.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/paul-weller-10-best-songs-with-and-without-the-jam/

Pork pie hats and politics: Coventry pays tribute to 2 Tone legacy with major exhibition that charts the rise of the record label that spawned the musical and cultural movement in the late 1970s

 

Scrawled on the back of an Embassy cigarette packet are Jerry Dammers’ first attempts to define the 2 Tone “rude boys” after a question from the press in the late 1970s. They like “bluebeat and ska … reggae and soul” and wear “trilbys, bowler and pork pie hats … pinstripe suits, button-down shirts and checked scarves”.

Dammers, who founded the 2 Tone record label in Coventry in 1979, little knew how the description he jotted down would become the image of a hugely popular musical and cultural movement.

His note is part of the first major exhibition devoted solely to 2 Tone, one of the first events on the Coventry city of culture calendar, which started officially in May after a four-month delay due to Covid.

With never-before-seen artefacts and exclusive interviews with band members, it charts the formation of the record label that spawned the 2 Tone movement, focusing particularly on The Specials, The Selecter and other ska-influenced bands including Madness, The Beat and The Bodysnatchers.

“After 40 years, someone has collected everything up, put it in one place and allowed people to see the narrative we were putting out into the world, and how that is impacting all the things that are going on now, like Black Lives Matter,” said Pauline Black, the lead singer of the Selecter, a 2 Tone ska revival band formed in Coventry in 1979.

The 2 Tone genre, which fused traditional Jamaican ska music with punk, was created against a backdrop of high unemployment, deindustrialisation, strikes and a rising far-right movement, and sought to promote a message against the racism and sexism so prevalent at the time.

“We did it through music, and through our style of dress, and black people and white people playing in a band just demonstrated that it was possible for people to get on and find common goals politically and socially,” said Black. “I want young people to come here and see the history that we lived through and how that still resonates today. This conversation is not finished.”

She donated a number of items to the exhibition, including her trilby hat and a 1980s Selecter T-shirt from the US, an example of how 2 Tone gained worldwide popularity.

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They sit alongside Dammers’ original handwritten lyrics for the Specials’ single Ghost Town, the No 1 hit tackling themes of urban decay and inner-city violence, and his original sketches of the 2 Tone man, which became one of the movement’s most recognisable images.

“Dammers’ collection in particular was a real coup for us, that’s never been shown before,” said Martin Roberts, the exhibition’s curator. “He’s a perfectionist and there was quite a bit of negotiation to persuade him that this was a project he wanted to be involved in. So some of this stuff is going to be amazing for fans, I think it will blow them away.”

For Black, it’s also an important reminder of Coventry’s importance in the history of the British music scene.

“This didn’t come out of London, it came out of the provinces and that’s an extraordinary thing,” she said. “To get successful bands all occupying space in the pop charts at the time and in the minds of young people in this country, it is a great feat.”

2 Tone: Lives & Legacies runs from 28 May to 12 September at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry

The Manfreds & Georgie Fame Max R n B Tour 2021

 Max R n B Tour 2021 with Special Guest Georgie Fame

14 Oct 2021 City Hall Sheffield

15 Oct 2021 Town Hall Birmingham

16 Oct 2021 Assembly Hall Worthing

18 Oct 2021 Kings Theatre Portsmouth

19 Oct 2021 Playhouse Theatre Weston-super-Mare

20 Oct 2021 Queens Theatre Barnstaple

21 Oct 2021 Pavilion Theatre Bournemouth

23 Oct 2021 Leas Cliff Hall Folkestone

24 Oct 2021 Cliffs Pavilion Southend

26 Oct 2021 Congress Theatre Eastbourne

27 Oct 2021 Cadogan Hall London

28 Oct 2021 The Anvil Basingstoke

30 Oct 2021 Opera House Buxton

31 Oct 2021 Orchard Theatre Dartford

04 Nov 2021 G-Live Guildford

05 Nov 2021 Assembly Hall Tunbridge Wells

06 Nov 2021 Hexagon Theatre Reading

07 Nov 2021 Central Theatre Chatham

11 Nov 2021 Opera House, York

12 Nov 2021 Victoria Hall Stoke-on-Trent

13 Nov 2021 Victoria Theatre Halifax

14 Nov 2021 Grand Theatre Blackpool

17 Nov 2021 Swan Theatre High Wycombe

18 Nov 2021 City Hall Salisbury

19 Nov 2021 New Theatre Peterborough

20 Nov 2021 Regent Ipswich

29 Nov 2021 Philharmonic Hall Liverpool

01 Dec 2021 The Stage Gateshead

03 Dec 2021 Royal Concert Hall Glasgow

Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames – The Complete Live Broadcasts / BBC Radio Sessions 1964-1967 - Out on 4th July (Rhythm & Blues Records)

 

CD One tracks:

1. Introduction & Interview
2. Saturday Night Fish Fry
3. Interview on arrangements
4. Yeh Yeh (1)
5. Preach And Teach
6. Interview on being #1
7. Yeh Yeh (2)
8. Tell All The World About You
9. Let The Sunshine In
10. Interview on success in USA
11. In The Meantime (1)
12. Point Of No Return (1)
13. Telegram
14. Yeh Yeh (3)
15. Interview on Johnny Burch
16. In The Meantime (2)
17. Get On The Right Track, Baby
18. Interview on the follow-up
19. Like We Used To Be (1)
20. Rockin‘ Pneumonia Boogie Woogie Flu
21. No No
22. Move It On Over
23. Interview on dancing
24. Like We Used To Be (2)
25. Monkeying Around
26. Point Of No Return (2)
27. Interview on John Mayall
28. Something
29. Ride Your Pony
30. The World Is Round
31. Interview on jazz
32. My Girl
33. Boot-leg

CD Two tracks:

1. Interview on Sweet Thing
2. Sweet Thing (1)
3. Funny How Time Slips Away
4. See-Saw
5. Uptight
6. Interview with Lulu
7.Call Me
8. You’ll Never Leave Him
9. Interview on Get Away
10. Get Away (1)
11. Last Night
12. Close The Door
13. Interview on going to USA
14. Get Away (2)
15. Sweet Thing (2)
16. Sunny (1)
17. Interview on Sound Venture
18. Dawn Yawn
19. Lovey Dovey
20. Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag
21. Interview on Harry South
22. Keep Your Big Mouth Shut
23. Three Blind Mice
24. Do The Dog
25. Interview on end of the Blue Flames
26. Because I Love You
27. Point Of No Return (3)
28. Waiting Time
29. Interview on New York
30. El Pussycat 31. Sunny (2)

https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/georgie-fame-and-the-blue-flames/rhythm-and-blues-at-the-bbc-1965?utm_source=CJ&cjevent=2597ce83bb0511eb80b301540a18050c

One in a million: Inspirational amputee urges everyone to get the Covid vaccination despite incredibly rare side-effect that nearly claimed his life

 Smiling broadly and looking sharp on his vintage Vespa, Alex Mitchell seems the picture of health.

Just four weeks ago, however, he was in hospital fighting for his life having suffered a highly rare but devastating reaction to the Covid vaccine. After developing blood clots so severe that doctors had no option but to amputate his left leg above the knee, Alex is now recovering at home.

His priority is the battle ahead and ensuring no one is discouraged from getting the vaccine due to his ordeal. Alex, 56, said: “It has been quite a surreal few weeks. I’ve experienced the most horrific days of my life but I’m still here and just need to keep fighting and keep being positive. That’s all I can do.”

He is literally one in a million, or thereabouts, having suffered a side effect of the AstraZeneca jab so rare there is no reliable data on it yet. He said: “This is so rare it isn’t going to happen to many other people so it shouldn’t deter anyone having the vaccine. I had it because I want things to go back to normal as soon as they can. And the only way we can do this is by being vaccinated.”

Alex, from Cambuslang, Glasgow, had his Covid jab on March 20 and, aside from a sore arm and tiredness, seemed fine. But 12 days later, he was struck down with sore calves. The scaffolder said: “The nature of my job is heavy lifting, so we do get aches and pains sometimes. Sore muscles are common. I had a hot bath and an early night. I didn’t think much of it.”

The pain continued over the next few days and on April 4, Alex collapsed at home. “One minute I was doing the ironing and the next my legs buckled,” he said.

With wife Michelle in the kitchen and unable to hear him shouting, Alex dragged himself downstairs and told her to call an ambulance.

“I knew straight away something wasn’t right,” he said. “And when the sweat started pouring off me and I began hyperventilating, I knew I was in trouble.”

Alex was taken to hospital where a CT scan confirmed multiple blood clots in his lower abdomen and in both legs. Rushed into theatre, surgeons removed the clots which thankfully hadn’t moved into his liver and kidneys.

“It was a worrying time,” Alex said. “The doctors were speaking to consultants all around the world about me, because it was unheard of for someone with this level of clotting to survive.”

Alex’s daughters Jennifer, 24, and Sophie, 20, and Michelle waited anxiously for word. During the operation consultants warned them his life was at risk and that amputation needed to be considered, with the loss of both legs a possibility. Alex pulled through but had to come to terms with how his life would change and a week later underwent amputation surgery.

“I asked if they could amputate below the knee, just so that there were more options when it came to getting mobile again,” said Alex. “But unfortunately it had to be above. Every vein in my left leg was collapsing.

“But they saved my life. I should not be here, but I am. It had to happen and I just have to adapt. Thankfully it was just one leg.”

Alex was advised it could take up to a year for him to be fully mobile again, with the help of a prosthetic leg. But he’s determined to prove doctors wrong and do it in three months.

“I was out of hospital last week, just a few days after the surgery, and I’m already determined to get better as soon as I can,” he said. “My attitude is – bring it on! I always try to be the best person I can be, and see the positive, so I’ve already decided losing a leg won’t define me. It will alter my path but I have so much determination and fighting spirit that it won’t stop me being Alex Mitchell.”

Alex faces up to six weeks in a wheelchair to build up his strength before being fitted with a prosthetic leg and then intense rehabilitation to learn to walk with it.

By late summer, the lifelong Mod hopes to be out on his “new” 50-year-old Vespa, suited and booted, doing a charity run to Hairmyres Hospital, to raise funds for Finding Your Feet to enable the charity to buy a new training leg.

“It has given me a whole different perspective,” Alex said. “It has changed my life. I’ve lost my leg and my livelihood. I won’t be able to do scaffolding again and there will be challenges ahead but I believe it will change things in a positive way. Before all this happened I loved nothing more than dancing to Northern Soul. I’m a terrible dancer so it’s no great loss – but I will dance again.

“I wouldn’t want to discourage people from having the Covid jab. From what they know, what happened to me is rare. It’s only going to affect maybe one or two people, so don’t let it put you off.

“It’s a big thing, but the fact that I’m here is an even bigger thing. I’m not going to feel sad or angry. Life four weeks ago was normal and very different, but now I have a ‘new normal’. I’m fully aware that I will have down days – but I had down days when I had two legs.

“I consider myself very lucky. I have family and friends, support and love – and a whole lot of determination. It’s important to be thankful for what you’ve got – and to remember there is always someone worse off than you.”

'Saturday Morning Blues Jam' 9 a.m. to Noon by Erol Reyal

 

“Hi this is Good John. I host the 'Saturday Morning Blues Jam' from 9 to noon. My favorite album is Quadrophenia by The Who. It brings a lot of memories back. We’d go to the point, north Bradford Beach, and they had the 'Love Rock' out there and we’d listen to Quadrophenia and have fun!"d

‘Quadrophenia’ Turned The Who’s Mod Opus Into Coming Of Age Tale … But Is It Any Good? asks Benjamin H. Smith from Decider's Cult Corner

 

No songwriter has ever captured the combustible mix of teenage fury and frailty as well as The Who’s Pete Townshend.  The band’s violent interplay and interpersonal relations transferred through to their music which vibrated with energy. Tough guy singer Roger Daltrey brought Townshend’s lyrics to life but the characters residing within them were as wounded and confused as they were defiant and angry. For every, “Hope I die before I get old,” there’s a, “No one knows what it’s like, to be hated, to be fated to telling only lies.” The 1973 concept album Quadrophenia was the full flowering of this impulse, chronicling the ups, uppers and downs of a young mod. It is arguably the band’s finest work and in 1979 was turned into a feature film, which is currently available for streaming on HBO Max, Tubi, The Criterion Channel, and more.

Quadrophenia the film follows its source material closely, perhaps too closely. The year is 1964 or ‘65 and main character Jimmy Cooper is a young mod from working class London. He works as a gopher at an ad agency and spends his meager salary on custom-made suits, amphetamines and customizing his Lambretta scooter. Jimmy is played by British actor Phil Daniels, who positively inhabits the role, appropriately ebullient or taciturn as his moods ebb and explode. As per the album title, Jimmy is schizophrenic, “a bloody split personality,” in the words of his father. Really, he seems more bipolar than schizophrenic but Bipolarphenia doesn’t have the same ring, does it?

Like legions of teenagers and young adults before him, Jimmy strives to fit in but ends up on the outside. In being a mod he thinks he’s being “a somebody” but only feels joy when he’s following the crowd, whether it’s riding with the pack or rumbling with rival “rockers,” leather-clad ’50s fetishists who ride actual motorcycles. Ironically, Jimmy’s childhood friend Kevin, played by a young Ray Winstone, is both a rocker and his own man, unconcerned with the street politics that should divide them. When Kevin gets jumped by mods, Jimmy runs off, unwilling to stick his neck out for a friend. As throughout the film, he ends the night despondent and alone.   

Jimmy lusts after Steph, played by Leslie Ash, but is too shy to dance with her. They later journey with a phalanx of mods on scooters to the English seaside resort of Brighton. There, they encounter top mod “Ace Face,” played by a pre-douchenozzle Sting, and battle gangs of rockers and the police. Jimmy and Steph escape the melee and have awkward sex in an alleyway. Afterwards, Jimmy is arrested and shares a paddy wagon with Ace, who offers him a cigarette. He thinks he’s top of the world but his high won’t last.

Back in London, Jimmy loses his home, his job, his girl and his standing in the gang in short order. “It seems like everything’s going backwards,” he says to Steph, who’s already moved on to one of his friends. “You sure it’s not you that’s going backwards?,” she responds. He speeds off and is almost run over by a mail truck. “You killed me scooter!,” he cries. With nowhere to go, he dons his best mod finery and returns to Brighton, the only place where anything ever made sense. Of course, he’s as alone as he ever was. After seeing his hero Ace working as a lowly bellboy, he has an existential crisis, steals Ace’s scooter and drives it off the White Cliffs of Dover. We know from the opening scene, he jumps off at the last moment. 

Quadrophenia is essential viewing for any fan of The Who or anyone interested in the mod subculture. Counting myself a fairly big Who fan, I’ve seen it multiple times but have never considered whether or not it was a good film. In truth, it would have benefited from not following the original plotline so faithfully and trying to shoehorn in as many Who references as it could. While the first half of the film is a compelling coming of age tale, it unravels in the end, devolving into little more than a music video, letting the album’s songs replace scripted dialogue to explain what’s happening. Though Quadrophenia is among my favorite albums, and the film is beautifully shot and worth watching, I still can’t help pondering how much better it could have been.

Benjamin H. Smith is a New York based writer, producer and musician.

Sha La La's and Dr Bird at Albert's Home for Discerning Modernists, The Cavern, Raynes Park on Friday 25th June

 

Subbaculture Issue 9 out now!

Issue 9 has a brand new look and a bunch more pages - in this issue:

interviews with reuben billingham from the anglozine clothing label, steve rowland and eddie pillar talk fanzines and book publishing and a huge discussion on the state of the young mod with lucas gomersall, katie town, jodie richardson, callum sammon, jake bonici and paul hallam. features on dexys midnight runners, soul music and vietnam, subcultures and fairgrounds, ian swift typography, japanese city pop, dusty springfield, spike island, prince buster v derek morgan, victorian street gangs, book reviews

Expanded format/pages. A5 perfect bound, colour cover, 84 black & white pages
includes full colour A3 poster (2 designs available, shipped randomly)

300 individually numbered copies available.
£5.99 plus shipping

(UK shipping + £1.95 / European shipping + £4.50 / Everywhere else + £6.50)

EUROPEAN CUSTOMERS PLEASE NOTE as of 2021 orders shipped from the UK to Europe will be subject to local taxes. This will mean an additional fee charged by your country which we have no control over

Paul Weller scores sixth Number 1 on Official Albums Chart: "I never take it for granted"

 

Congratulations to Paul Weller, who lands straight in at Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart with Fat Pop.

The Modfather’s new record racks up 26,005 chart sales – 91% of which were physical sales – to become his sixth chart-topping record.

Celebrating the news, Weller told OfficialCharts.com, “To have people like an album and want to buy it is never taken for granted by me, so to have it go to Number 1 makes it even more special.”

Weller’s new entry extends his run of Number 1 success across five decades, first topping the chart in 1982 with The Jam before landing solo Number 1s in the 90s, 00s, 10s and 20s.

With six solo Number 1s, Weller joins acts including Pink Floyd, Blur, Phil Collins and The Killers, who have all landed six chart-topping albums.

Weller holds off strong competition from J. Cole’s The Off-Season which opens at Number 2, claiming the most album streams in a single week of 2021 so far. The entry marks his third Top 10 album in the UK and matches the peak of Cole’s previous album, 2018’s KOD. Last week’s Number 1, Rag’n’Bone Man’s Life By Misadventure, drops to 3.

Margate Plan B - Mod & Sixties Weekend 28/29/30 May

 

THE ORDINARYS - Models / I Never Knew 7" out now on LOVE CHILD RECORDS

 

THE ORDINARYS 
Models / I Never Knew
LOVE CHILD RECORDS
GAG012
 
THE ORDINARYS - MODELS
For the first time ever on 45!!!
Authentic mod revival punk from the fine vintage of 1978.
It’s a great pleasure for us at Love Child Records to get this lost classic out on limited PINK VINYL 45 (250 press) like it should of been made back in the day!
(SOUND)
https://youtu.be/HWfRhuwXSu0

HEAVY SOUL Modzine Issue 54 WITH ONE-SIDED 7" featuring SOUNDS INCARCERATED ("What Do I Get?") and THE OMEGA FOUR ("Are You Being Served?") out on 25th May

HEAVY SOUL Modzine
Issue 54
 
** WITH ONE-SIDED 7" featuring SOUNDS INCARCERATED ("What Do I Get?") and THE OMEGA FOUR ("Are You Being Served?") **
 
Release date: 25/05/2021
 
Hey Hey Hey!!
Third edition of 2021 and a great insight into many new and old bands that has influenced our way of thinking...
What's in this one then....
Interviews with:
ALLAN CROCKORD of The Galileo 7, Prisoners etc and now SOUNDS INCARCERATED
Edinburgh's musical maestro ROD SPARK
Chris Blackburn from THE MOURNING AFTER on the new releases from the band
From the original MAKIN' TIME line-up Steve Giles
From France DJAR ONE on his hip-hop and moddy 45 mash-ups
Another France inhabitant in teh shape of new label boss JEAN-MARC VARLET
Uber collector MARK SMITH on his prized records
Plus many ARTICLES like:
New releases on 7" and LP/12"
Loads of Jazz articles, a small tribute to Ali McKenzie
The Who, Weller, Squire, Neurotico Parlo, Kevin Fingier etc
Also - the 25 track CD featuring big 60s Club Sounds